United States Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period, 1918-1941: The Golden Age of American Diplomatic and Military Complacency

by Benjamin D. Rhodes

This study presents an in-depth survey of the principal policies and personalities of American diplomacy of the era, together with a discussion of recent historiography in the field. For two decades between the two world wars, America pursued a foreign policy course that was, according to Rhodes, shortsighted and self-centered. Believing World War I had been an aberration, Americans na Dively signed disarmament treaties and a pact renouncing war,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275948250
• ISBN13: 9780275948252
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"